#miser

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. ↗

— Stephen Phillips

#brightness #deepest #glory #god #grasp

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#come #conservation #day #degradation #failure

Misery loves company. ↗

— John Ray

#loves #misery #misery loves company

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#get married #i #i can #make #man

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#care #enjoy #enough #health #hoarding

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#free #make #miserable #set #truth

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extreme #hopes #misery

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#himself #man #miserable #only #thinks

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#enjoy #health #hoard #like #misers